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HERE IS WISDOM: beware of harmless-sounding words: "registration," "hourly," "transit," "camp," and above all (if you are a writer)--"PROMOTION," "PRESS RELEASE," "URGENT--FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
Highways and Transit. A four-year, $51 billion appropriation, $6 billion more than Carter wanted, was enacted to increase the federal share of funding for non-interstate highways from 70% to 75%. The measure gives states the authority to transfer federal funds allocated for highways to mass-transit projects if they wish...
Will Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy get the City Council to join an injunction suit against the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)? Will the MBTA listen to Cambridge citizens as they cry rape? Will the Red Line ever be extended from Harvard Square to the Alewife Parkway...
...KICKER, of course, is that this moderate, suburban, new-breed Republican Perry Duryea does not exist. Duryea's sentiments are about as suburban-sophisticated as those of the feed dealer in upstate Callicoon; back home in Montauk, where the folks care less about Medicaid funding and mass transit than whether the state will subsidize a new trawler dock, Duryea has survived only by aggressive, unrelenting provincialism...
...record shows it: Duryea's voting record in the state assembly displays a consistent disregard for city needs in the areas of revenue sharing, mass transit funding, Medicaid programming and low-income housing. But the record does not speak for itself. Duryea, with the silver mane and the mellow deliberate tones and the one careful vote for the Big MAC bond issue, can speak around it with startling effectiveness...